# Peyton out of Indy! Or: Colts ready to press their Luck **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 6, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peyton-out-of-indy-or-colts-ready-to-press-their-luck/614987 "2012-03-06T23:54:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peyton-out-of-indy-or-colts-ready-to-press-their-luck/614987/101 "2012-03-16T20:31:57Z")
[Denver Post and SI](http://tracking.si.com/2012/03/16/report-broncos-offer-for-peyton-manning-is-five-years-60-million/?sct=hp_t2_a6&eref=sihp) are reporting that the Broncos plan to offer Manning a $60 million, **five-year** contract. Good Lord, if Payton plays another five years he’ll be retiring to an operating room. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peyton-out-of-indy-or-colts-ready-to-press-their-luck/614987/102 "2012-03-16T20:54:47Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > [Denver Post and SI](http://tracking.si.com/2012/03/16/report-broncos-offer-for-peyton-manning-is-five-years-60-million/?sct=hp_t2_a6&eref=sihp) are reporting that the Broncos plan to offer Manning a $60 million, **five-year** contract. Good Lord, if Payton plays another five years he’ll be retiring to an operating room. He’d be 41; others have played that long, he’s among the best there is at avoiding hits, and his doctors have said he’s at no more risk than anyone else. I don’t know that he \*will \*play that long, nor that they’ll want him to under that deal but it makes sense to offer him to an until-the-end-of-his-career contract. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peyton-out-of-indy-or-colts-ready-to-press-their-luck/614987/103 "2012-03-16T21:40:23Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > [Denver Post and SI](http://tracking.si.com/2012/03/16/report-broncos-offer-for-peyton-manning-is-five-years-60-million/?sct=hp_t2_a6&eref=sihp) are reporting that the Broncos plan to offer Manning a $60 million, **five-year** contract. Good Lord, if Payton plays another five years he’ll be retiring to an operating room. That’s nothing. [Shoney’s](http://shoneys.com/) restaurant has offered Manning [free pancakes](http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120316/NEWS01/303160086/Shoney-s-offers-Peyton-Manning-free-pancakes-every-day-Titan) every day he is a member of the Tennessee Titans. Free pancakes! Every day! Checkmate! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peyton-out-of-indy-or-colts-ready-to-press-their-luck/614987/104 "2012-03-16T21:40:59Z")
It’s a general rule that you can ignore the last two years of most veteran contracts. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peyton-out-of-indy-or-colts-ready-to-press-their-luck/614987/105 "2012-03-16T21:46:44Z")
Peyton Manning…backed up by Tim Tebow…on the Denver Broncos. All I need is for Jerry Jones to buy them and it’ll be everything in the NFL that I ever hated all rolled up into one delicious ball of needs-an-ass-whuppin’. If this happens (the Manning thing — Jones won’t leave Texas for fear of being shot on sight, and the only potential replacement, Al Davis, finally got around to admitting he was dead), then 2012 is going to be one hell of an interesting year for this Charger fan. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peyton-out-of-indy-or-colts-ready-to-press-their-luck/614987/106 "2012-03-19T16:22:55Z")
Manning chooses Denver. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peyton-out-of-indy-or-colts-ready-to-press-their-luck/614987/107 "2012-03-19T16:27:06Z")
How did his agent convince him to turn down that Shoney’s pancake deal? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peyton-out-of-indy-or-colts-ready-to-press-their-luck/614987.md?page=5)